Previous Meetings

2021

Coerced Labour in the Early Modern World (1500-1800): Definitions, Justifications and Resistances (Online, 7-8 September 2021)

Organiser: Giovanni Lista

2020 – cancelled due to COVID-19

Change and Exchange (European University Institute, 27-29 May 2020)

Organisers: Ann Thomson, Thomas Ashby, Giovanni Lista, Elisavet Papalexopoulou, Francesca Parenti

2019

Revolutions & Evolutions in Intellectual History (University of Queensland, Australia, 5–7 June 2019)

Organisers: Ian Hesketh, Michael Hunter, James A. T. Lancaster and Michelle Pfeffer

2018

Borders, Boundaries, Limits (University of St Andrews, 5-7 June 2018)

Organiser: Richard Whatmore

2017

The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity (American University in Bulgaria, 30 May – 1 June)

Organiser: Diego Lucci

2016

Rethinking Europe in Intellectual History (University of Crete, 3-5 May)

Organiser: Spiros Tegos

2014

Intellectual Hinterlands (University of Toronto, 25-27 June)

Organiser: James A.T. Lancaster

2013

The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective (Princeton University, 5-7 June)

Organiser: Daniel Garber, Howard HotsonDana Jalobeanu and James A.T. Lancaster

2011

Passionate Minds: Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History (University of Bucharest, 26-28 May)

Organiser: Dana Jalobeanu and Sorana Corneanu

2009

Translatio Studiorum: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Bearers of Intellectual History (University of Verona, 25-27 May)

Organiser: Marco Sgarbi

2007

Models of Intellectual History (Birkbeck, University of London, 17-20 April)

Organiser: Stephen Clucas

2005

Rethinking Secularization (University of California, Davis, 31 March-3 April)

Organiser: Allison Coudert

2004

Uses and Abuses of Reason (University of Helsinki, 27-31 July)

Organiser: Heikki Mikkeli

2003

Alterity and the Experience of Limits (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, 10-13 December)

Organiser: Levent Yilmaz

2002

The Origins of Modernity: European Thought, 1543–1789 (University of New South Wales/University of Sydney, 7-12 July)

Organisers: Stephen Gaukroger and John Schuster

2001

Quarrels, Polemics, and Controversies (University of Cambridge, 26-29 July)

Organisers: Edoardo Tortarolo and Françoise Waquet

2000

Turning Points (University of Chicago, 21-24 September)

Organiser: Daniel Garber

1998

The History of Endings/The Endings of Stories (Freie Universität Berlin, 10-14 July)

Organiser: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

1997

Questions of Tradition: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 13-16 November)

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